I'm going to disagree and say that self-checkout has been good, and I only see the systems improving at stores I frequent and more stores are adding it every day. I'd call that a success.
it's not an exaggeration, there were also stores near where I live in <major city> that tried to do something similar with scanning apps and then abandoned it due to theft and added the standard self-checkout stations you see everywhere now.
The only way to win is not to play at all.
Ignore people talking about things they don't know about.
Take everything with a grain of salt and verify everything, even this.
I love TCMC, its my favorite story, but I enjoy reading the abridged version more. I find that every time I read the unabridged I end up feeling like it was slightly too long.
> Signal does not care about users and prevents backups on iOS. Lose your device or delete the app due to some issues and reinstall? All your chats are gone!
My chats being gone from new devices is one reason I use Signal over others.
> Signal still has message delivery issues (like long delays)…it’s 2022!!!
I've sent tens or hundreds of thousands of messages over the course of years and the only time i've had delays is when I had spotty service.
It seems very hard to do but I worked at a startup in the early 2010s and we were spending >500k/m. We had ~25 employees, 7 of them execs, all buying new homes and cars, meanwhile we had 1 single paying customer bringing in 10k/m. I told some of my close colleagues that we probably had 6-12 months left when I put in my resignation.
12 months later they laid off 10 of the 12 remaining engineers.